Flanged disk pressed steel wheel



W. E. WILLIAMS.

FLANGED DJSK PRESSED STEEL WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED SEAPT. 1a, 1919.

1 392 381,' v Patented. Oct 4-; 1923 PATENT OFFICE... i

WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FLANGED DISK PRESSED STEEL WHEEIJ.

To all whom itmay concern: 7

Be it, .known that I, WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMs,f a citizen' of the United States,

residentof Chicago, county of Cook, and State oflllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Flanged Disk Pressed Steel Wheels, of which the followin'g is a specification.

1 he object of my invention is to provide a light, cheaply constructed strong and durable wheel.

Reference will be had to .the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the wheel. Fig.2 is a vertical sectionalelevation of the wheel on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan-view of the edge of the rim as indicated by the arrows 3-3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail ofa thimr ble used for assisting in fastening the plates together. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail on line 5+5 of Fig.1. Fig. 6 is a transverse see- I tion through the rim of'the Wheel, showing an alternative construction. I j similar view to that of Fig. 6, showing an- Fig. 7 is a other alternative construction. Fig. .8 is a detail showing the steps required to secure the rim parts together.

My wheel is intended chiefly for use with automobiles, particularly with automobile trucks, althoughit may be used for pleasure cars or passengerv cars.

For illustration, a solid tire is shown on asuitable tread, but difierent tiresand treads ma'beused. w

n the drawing 1 indicates the solid rubber tread of a truck tire and 2 a steel base to which the tire is fixed. 3 indicates the ordinary hub of a' truck wheel.

Preferably this wheel has instead of spokes two similar but oppositely turned disks,4 5, and a hub 3 having a not necessarily integral flange 7 and a distinct front flange member 8 provided with a ring 9 fitting over the hub and pressed on so ti htly as to bevpractica'lly nonremovable. he wheel rim has an annular band 10 "provided with "a, medial. circumferential groove 11 between cylindrical marginal flanges. The disks 4, 5 rest' against the lateral edges of the band 10, are sharply bent over its peripheral face i and. again p 7 piece wlth the hub. Then the parts are placed in relationship with the rim piece 10 sharply bent, at 13, into the groove 11 where they are held by a ring groove, thus securely binding the disks in the latter.

Specification of Letters Patent.

of the disks.

14 pressed to the Patented Oct. 4,1921. I

Application filed September 13, 1919. Serial No. 323,524.

The rim of the wheel is made with an'an nular band 10, which is formed with an inward extending recess 11, thus making the sectionwhat might be termed a channel section with horizontal flanges on its margins.

The plates 4 and 5 are flanged over at their outer margins 12 to embrace the rim piece 10 and they have their inner ends turned in at 13 into the'groove 11 of the I rim 10. A bar 14 that is welded into a complete ring, s pressed into the groove 11, blnding t e ends 13 in a tight lateral fit into the. roove 11, thus making a' positive lock of t e several parts together. When the wheel is fabricated the disks 4 and 5, where they join the hub, are each pressed into a groove 15 of the flanges 7 and 8 and are secured in the said grooves by rings 16 which are of the right sizes to make a snug fit and fix the inner portion of the plates 4 and 5 so tightly into the grooves 15 of the flanges 7 and 8 as to hold the metal of the sheets so that the plates will tear outside of the groove without loosening this fastening.

After the rings 16 are pressed home into the grooves 15 a small flange 17 primarily in position to allow the corresponding ring 16 to ass to place is bent over to the position s own in .the drawing.

Informing the disks 4, 5, portions 18 are pressed outward and in the bottoms of the recesses so formed holes are punched to receive disk-connecting eyelets 19 which when riveted in place'rigldly-connect these parts In fabricating the wheel the steps are as follows The two plates 4 and 5 are pressed in suit able dies and with their edges 13 as they appear in the assembled wheel, extending out straight as shown at 20 in Fig. 8. Then one of the plates is. assembled in relation to the hubflange 7 and is secured to that flange by being'pressed in by means of the ring fastening 16 "as before'described. The other disk 4' is then securedto the. flange 8 and fastened thereto by the fastening ring 16, before the said flange 8 is assembled on the hub. Then the flange 8 and plate 4 become,

as it were, a, unitary piece, so also does the 105 late 5 and the flange 7 become a unitary and the hub, and pressed together, the press- 7. In a wheel of the class described, a tread ring and disks forming the'web of the wheel, said disks provided w th tread flanges adapted to embrace the outside of the tread ring, said tread ring having a circumferential groove and the margins of the said tread flanges of the disks turned into the said groove, with an undivided ring filling the remaining space in the groove and locking in placethe tread flanges of the disks,

8. In a wheel of the class described, disks forming the web of wheel and said disks locked to the hub by means of in-turned edges clamping into grooves in flanges of the hub by means of clampin rings pressed into the grooves, and said 'c amping rings lockedln place,

9. In a wheel of the class described, disks forming the web of the wheel and said disks locked to the hub by means of in-turned edges clamped into grooves in flanges of the forming the web of the wheel and said disks locked to the hub by means of inturned edges clamped into grooves in flanges of the hub by means of clamping rings pressed into the grooves, and said clamping rings locked in place by positive locking means in addition to the frictional engagement of the parts.

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this tenth day of September, 1919.

WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

B. J BERNHARD, JOHN B. JEFFERSON. 

